Bonus Post: Dancing the night away

I once again forgot to mention in yesterday's post that I have a couple extra days off this week due to some lesser known Jewish holidays. In fact both this week and next week I have 4-day weekends, so there will be a few fewer WILTIMS posts in the near future. But to make up for my lack of warning, here's a bonus fact:

TIL: St. Vitus is the patron saint of actors, dancers and epileptics. Why would I bring this up? In order to be given a diagnosis of rheumatic fever, which is caused by a systemic infection of Streptococcus pyogenes, the patient is required to present with at least 2 major symptoms or one major and 2 minor symptoms from the Jones criteria. The major symptoms (as listed in the order of a cute mnemonic) are:

• Joints (polyarthritis)
• ♡ (carditis)
• Nodes (subcutaneous nodules)
• Erythema marginatum rash
• Sydenham's chorea

That last one is the modern term for a neurologic condition involving uncoordinated movements of the limbs. The old name? Saint Vitus Dance.